i just got an asus dsl-ac68u modem/router and i noticed it has ssh access. i set this up and i can ssh in with root permissions, but it doesn't seem to have a package manager installed. being used to ...

Back in time to the ages when I was using Windows, applications were installed in an independent way. This left a lot of freedom to the end user/sysadmin to decide what and where to upgrade, what to ...

I am building an image for an embedded Linux based on Debian. I did use apt-get update before on the device that I want to use as a base for that image, so the lists under /var/lib/apt/lists are quite ...

I recently installed Mint 17.2 (Rafalea) on a HP-255 G1 laptop. It was one of the smoothest installs I have ever done. However I have found a major issue with the Synaptic Package Manager. Whilst it ...

I need to create a yum repository but I have 5 gpgkeys, the idea is to configure the repo and each package install its own gpgkey automatically. In other words, I need to configure multiple gpgkeys ...

I would like to find all possible reverse dependencies (no need for recursive reverse dependencies) of a certain package p, that is, I want to find all packages which depend on p. This shall include ...

I installed a beta chromium and now want to purge it on linux mint using ppa-purge. I get all sorts of errors. I also confirmed that the browser has not been deleted/removed from my system as I just ...

I am looking to be able to set up a development environment.
Here's the deal, I prefer to run arch as my operating system but I also maintain packages for an ubuntu based distro and I was wondering ...

I have a kickstart file for RHEL 6 and in the package section for the installing of the TCPdump command line utility I put tcpdump as the package name.
Like I did with java and g++ in the kickstart ...

I am not able to install any software. I tried the commands like sudo apt-get -f install, sudo apt-get autoclean and sudo dpkg --configure -a after some googling. But no success till yet.
Please help ...

I accidently remove the libX11 package using the repository manager.
The repository manager seems to remove all the other packages which depend on libX11.
After removing, when I restart my computer, ...

I would like to execute the rpm install command instead of letting YUM do it by changing its source code. Which part of the source code do I change ? I need this as I need to give additional options ...

I would like to pass the --excludepath option to RPM through YUM since YUM doesn't provide an option like that. The --excludepath option tells the rpm command to exclude all files that start with the ...

I am on Mint 17.1 (Rebecca) and I'm trying to install gtk+-3.0. I get the following error when I do an apt-get
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libgtk-3-0-dbg : Depends: libgtk-3-0 (= ...

In a BASH script I need to check if gcc, g++, cpp, make, libpng devel, zlib devel, git, Java (including devel files), ant and pkg-config are available on Mac OS X and if not, I need to prompt user to ...

I am running the same Python software under both Mint 13 and Mint 17.1 – both are 64-bit. Prior to 64-bit operation the software was running on Mint 13 32-bit. On 64-bit Mint 13 everything works as ...

I have to update some machines, but I am using a patched version of linux, and don't want packages to modify specific files.
To be clearer here is a list of the actions I don't want a package to be ...